A short biography of Isaac Singer

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Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) was born in Radzymin , Poland, and grew up in Warsaw. In 1935 he came to New York, where he worked as a journalist and translated Hebrew, German, and Polish books into Yiddish. Beginning with his novel The Family Moskat in 1950 Singer published a steady stream of books—all of them written in Yiddish and translated into many languages—for which he was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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The King of the Fields List Price: $20.00 Singer portrays an age of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. He presents an imaginative spectacle of human perversity versus human aspirations.	More Stories from My Father's Court List Price: $22.95 A sequel to I. B. Singer s classic memoir In My Father s Court, these stories, published serially in the Daily Forward, depict the Beth Din in his father s home on Krochmalna Street in Warsaw.	Shadows on the Hudson List Price: $16.00 Serialized in the late 1950s, Shadows On The Hudson was translated from Yiddish and published posthumously as a complete novel in 1998, receiving widespread literary acclaim.

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